a blab by idle

MediaManager, a piece of beautiful Byrne Reese goodness (now free software!), is unfortunately giving me multiple woes: the new image tag containers aren't XHTML-compliant (no alt text in the <img> tag) and something's getting messed with new adds to the Media Queue. I might have to disable it for the time being.

I have three screens on my desk: two for my main G5 and one for "the other computer", which alternates between a windows box and a Mac Mini (recently upgraded to a Mac Mini with an Intel Core Duo). I sometimes try to mouse across all three screens, and of course realize "that's silly" after a few seconds. Two different computers, can't mouse across 'em, right?

Not anymore. I was reading an interesting article on apple.com that referenced iCluster, a visualization project from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography that uses a 12-screen grid of 30" Apple Cinema Displays controlled by six G5s. They can drive it all from one mouse and keyboard.

How? A gorgeous little multi-platform open source project called Synergy. Not to be confused with Wincent Colaiuta's fine little iTunes support app of the same name (which I purchased and have written about elsewhere), Synergy allows you to run multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse. It's not a full software KVM (yet), just a KM solution, but it's exactly what I'd been looking for without even knowing it.

There's still a couple of bugs under MacOS X, but it's way cool. Check it out if you are a multi-screen, multi-box user. Supports X, Windows, and MacOS X.

You simply cannot beat this line: "Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write goddamn login page himself."

Thanks to the Zager for pointing out this gem to me (which was slashdotted). Check it out for yourself. (Or follow the torrent link from the /. article — don't worry, he released it CC, it's okay to share!)

When I moved to dreamhost, I lost my ICRA and SafeSurf ratings. Those have now been restored to index and entry pages.

Self-policing is definitely preferable to Gonzales coming in and twizzling my first amendment rights.